There is no per-unit API price: self-host only.
There is no free API. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.
#37 of 200 in Embeddings. Strongest at: Embeddings & Retrieval.
On MTEB Mandarin Chinese v1 · Pair Classification · Mandarin Chinese, Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct scores 81.2 vs 81.9 — about the same.
Released 2024-06-15. It is the current version in its line.
Yes, the weights are open (Apache-2.0 licence).
The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.
Gte Qwen2 7B Instruct is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Alibaba (Qwen), released Jun 2024.
Qwen 3 Embedding 8B (better), QZhou Embedding Zh (open weights).